Journalist Khaled Drareni, who has become the symbol of the fight for press freedom in Algeria, was released Friday evening the day after the announcement of a presidential pardon in favor of dozens of prisoners of conscience, we have learned from his lawyer.
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"
He is free,
" said Friday February 19 Abdelaghani Badi, one of the lawyers of the correspondent in Algeria of the TV5 Monde channel and Reporters Without Borders (RSF), specifying that it was a measure of “
Provisional release
”.
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